Making Of My First Draft

1. I opened up an A4 new page and then added my front cover image by copying it and pasting it on the new page. I then wrote my title in the same font and colour as my original front cover title. I tilted the front cover image by clicking on the image and an arrow will appear on both ends with this it allows me to tilt it. It will look like this:

2. I then added all my images that I will use and used the grid to align everything to look professional it will look like this:

They all have the equal amount of space in between them.

When resizing my images into different sizes I held onto shift in order for the image not to stretch

3. I then added my black background for my editorial pillars. I did this by opening a new A4 page and painting the background black with the paint bucket tool

Foreground colour

Background colour

Default colour

This allows me to paint the whole background with one click instead of using the paint brush tool and wasting time It looked like

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4. I then copied and pasted onto the contents page I am making

This is what it will look like: 5. The next step is to resize the black box so it fits my contents page as shown below

6. I then wrote my text in and page numbers and to make it equal and straight and not out of place I used the grid to align everything.

It looked like this:

7. I then got a film strip from Google and opened it on a new page. Like shown below:

I need to take the background of in order to place pictures inside the rectangular boxes. To do this I will use the magnetic lasso tool. This allows me to go around the black outlines and cut the background of.

8. I went around the black outline of the film strip and it ended up looking like this:

9. I then right clicked>>layer via cut. This gave me a new layer which I can make invisible allowing my background to be removed.

This created a new layer without the background

New layer with no background

Layer with just background and no film strip

10. To officially not have a background on the filmstrip you take the eye symbol of and this will remove the layer.

Remove the eye symbol by clicking on it

Symbol not there meaning layer isn’t showing

11. The white background inside the box is still there so you have to repeat the same steps to take them all off.

After this has been done it looked like this:

As you can see the white background is not there anymore

12. I then copied and pasted the filmstrip onto my contents page and resized it to fit at the bottom holding the shift button down. After this was done it looked like this:

13. I then added my images and resized it to fit into the film strip

As you can see the film strip is behind the images and I want it to go in front. In order to do this I have to move all the raving image layers below the film strip so the film strip can come forward.

14. I dragged all the raving image layers below the film strip layer allowing the images to go backwards as shown below:

As you can see all raving layers have gone below......

....and so the images have moved backwards as shown below:

So it looked like this: